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“But the subordination must be to the armed vanguard of all the exploited, of all the toilers, i.e., to the proletariat. Measures must be taken at once, overnight, to substitute for the specific methods of "official administration" by state officials the simple functions of "workmen and managers," functions which are already fully within the capacity of the average city dweller and can well be performed for "workmen's wages.”

Book:The State and Revolution

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The State and Revolution

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, Marxist theorist, and one of the founders of the Soviet Union. He played a crucial role in the Russian Revolution, leading the October Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Tsarist regime and established the Soviet power. Lenin's ideas and theories had a profound impact on international politics in the 20th century. more

“We ourselves, the workers, will organize large-scale production on the basis of what capitalism has already created; we shall rely on our own experience as workers, we shall establish strict, iron discipline supported by the state power of the armed workers, we shall reduce the role of the state officials to that of simply carrying out our instructions as responsible, revocable, moderately paid "managers" (of course, with the aid of technicians of all sorts, types and degrees). This is our proletarian task, this is what we can and must start with in carrying out the proletarian revolution. Such a beginning, on the basis of large-scale production, will of itself lead to the gradual "withering away" of all bureaucracy, to the gradual creation of an order, order without quotation marks, which will be different from wage-slavery, an order in which the functions of control and accounting—becoming more and more simple—will be performed by each in turn, will then become a habit and will finally die out as the special functions of a special stratum of the population.”

Management Socialism Communism State Vanguard

Book:Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings

Source: Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings

“La poesía chilena, dijo Bibiano aquella noche, va a cambiar el día que leamos correctamente a Enrique Lihn, no antes.”

Poetry Authors Vanguard

Book:Distant Star

Source: Distant Star

“Il socialismo a favore dei finanzieri fece sorgere un altro agglomerato di sovrani della finanza capaci di rivaleggiare con i cloudalisti - tre aziende statunitensi con poteri superiori a quelli della private equity e di tutti i capitalisti terrestri messi insieme: Black Rock, Vanguard e State Street. Queste tre aziende, i Big Three come sono conosciuti nei circoli della finanza, di fatto posseggono il capitalismo americano. No, non sto esagerando.”

Capitalismo Vanguard Tecnofeudalesimo Finanza Black Rock Big Three Capitalismo Americano State Street

Book:Tecnofeudalesimo: Cosa ha ucciso il capitalismo

Source: Tecnofeudalesimo: Cosa ha ucciso il capitalismo